Word: tobacco
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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With a passionate aversion to publicity, March seldom allows his name to appear as the president or director of any of his companies, and, in the censored press of Dictator Franco, he gets away with it. Acting through intermediaries, March owns or controls Spain's tobacco and gasoline monopolies, a major bank (Banco Central), the principal brewery, chemical companies, mines, shipyards, steel plants, power and oil companies, and even a Coca-Cola bottling plant. He has a stake in the Institute Nacional de Industria, the state-owned agency for industrial development that controls and invests in private industry with...
...born on the Balearic island of Majorca, had little formal schooling, was largely self-taught. With only a $300 inheritance from his father, he set himself up in the smuggling trade while still in his teens, showed such talent that he soon had a fleet of schooners smuggling tobacco into Spain from North Africa. By 1914 he was displaying the trappings of respectability: his smuggling fleet was so large that he could afford to put some of his ships in legal trade...
...Allies, oil to the Germans. From his war profiteering, March went legitimate: he bought huge tracts of Majorcan real estate, invested in the Spanish sugar trust, chemicals, coal and oil. Though he held government monopolies on the manufacture and sale of cigarettes, he nonetheless continued to smuggle raw tobacco to avoid paying import taxes. Once, according to legend, he imported a shipment of right-hand gloves from Czechoslovakia, later bought a shipment of matching left-hand gloves, thus neatly sidestepping government import duties on finished goods...
...Reynolds Tobacco...
...mishmash of "Eliot Ness, Together Ness and Pointless Ness," the season was one of unhappy comedy and unhealthy violence, of defections, dismissals and dismay. CBS lost its able News Division President Sig Mickelson. and ABC squeezed out veteran Newscaster John Daly. CBS's Edward R. Murrow took his tobacco habit to Washington as head of the U.S. Information Agency (see PRESS). Writer-Producer (The Sacco-Vanzetti Story) Robert Alan Aurthur quit TV with the parting shot: "Television may be unique in our free-enterprise system in that the harder one fights for a position in the marketplace, the poorer...